ALABAMA MICA DEPOSITS 79 



Stockdale Mica Mine. The Stockdale naica mine, orig- 

 inally known as the Bell and Kilgore mine, is located 

 partly in the S. E. 14 of the N. E. % of Section 25, Town- 

 ship 18 S., Range 10 E., and partly in the N. i/ 2 of the 

 S. W. 1/4 of N. W. % of Section 30, Township 18 S., 

 Range 11 E., immediately adjoining it on the east, and is 

 about 5 miles S. E. of Micaville. 



The property is not reported to have been recently 

 mined, but when last examined, in December, 1917, had 

 just been acquired and was being reopened with a view 

 to operation by R. W. Stockdale, T. A. Cornwall and L. 

 F. Haggard, of Gadsden, Alabama. At that time the main 

 developments were the old Bell and Kilgore workings in 

 Section 30, opened up in 1915, which consisted of a shaft 

 and slope, both driven to water level, and there as usual, 

 abandoned for lack of pumping facilities. 



Both shaft and slope contained water and could only 

 be examined to that level. 



The pegmatite developed by the shaft and slope has a 

 strike of 40, N.E.-S.W., and a dip S. E., of 60. To the 

 depth visible, it is apparently altogether kaolinized, con- 

 taining crystalline quartz, mainly in small angular frag- 

 ments, the mica being distributed through the mass. 



When previously examined in March 1916, there was in 

 the mica house approximately 5,400 pounds of mica, said 

 to have been taken out of the shaft and slope, of which 

 amount 1,400 pounds had been thumb-trimmed, about 

 2,500 pounds run-of-mine, and the remaining 1,500 

 pounds, scrap. 



The mica stock recovered was a light amber muscovite, 

 running to fair sizes in flat sheet, some of it of high grade, 

 being the remnant of a worked over stock, the total 

 amount of which recovery could not be reliably ascer- 

 tained. 



Developments in Section 25, consisted of six or more 

 shallow surface cross-cuts, opened up in testing four dis- 

 tinct leads of pegmatite, indicated by outcrops as cross- 

 ing the Section parallel to the pegmatite deposit opened 

 up in Section 30, having the same strike and S. E. dip. 



The mica still remaining in these cross-cuts was all 

 small, but of flat sheet of exceptionally high grade. 



